This presentation covers some aspects of present development in the field of thermoelectricity and focuses particularly on the silicon nanowires as potential thermoelectric materials. The electronic and phonon dispersions are calculated and used for the calculation of thermoelectric properties in these nanowires.

Movie was generated using Band Structure Lab tool at nanoHUB and allows to scan over four parameters:
Hole energy measured from the top of the corresponding band (i.e. the origin of energy scales for LH and SOH is different)
Strain direction: [001], [110], [111]
Carrier type: LH, HH, SOH
Strain value
Red lines indicate reciprocal half-vectors in [111] directions (L-points in Brillouin zone).
Scan proceeds as four nested cycles for the variables listed from left to right, i.e. the …

These are the presentations given by the students during the first 2010 event for NCN at Purdue. Students showcased a wide genre of research they are doing under the NCN. All the talks have been uploaded here for easy access.

This small presentation provides information about the comparison performed for quantum wells made of GaAs and InAs in two different tools. This has been done to benchmark the results from completely two different sets of tools and validate the obtained results. In this presentation we provide the motivation for this work, the input details and results obtained. The tools used for this purpose are Piecewise Constant Potential Barrier Tool(PCPBT) and Periodic Potential Lab. We provide ...